Will Bunch: John Gotti would have OK'd the Trump-Vance mob hit on Zelensky

[BootinUp]

“Trump comes from a New York where the mafia, business, and politics were intertwined,” Ganz wrote in an essay last year. “The political bosses — Donald Manes and Meade Esposito — the Trump family relied upon to clear construction projects were fully tied into the mob. And if Trump has a political theory at all, it’s one developed in this formative period of his life: the system is just an interlocking series of rackets and ‘this is just the way the world works.’”

It took the twists and turns of three long decades, but Trump is now the boss, and he seeks to rule America not like the 44 presidents who came before him, but like the mobster who once competed with him for the Post’s daily front page. You see it in his Teflon Donald ability to duck prison, his skimming of tributes for his “legitimate businesses,” but mainly in his all-encompassing need to display domination. John Gotti taught Trump to whack your opponents in front of the whole world, whether that’s during rush hour in midtown Manhattan or live on CNN, and to dare his rivals to come for the king.

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[Walleye]

1. He should just haul out his dick and wave it around. Oh, he can't. It's so embarrassing.

[wcmagumba]

2. I'm sure he would have done the same or worse...

I actually saw Gotti (and his blond bimbo daughter) when he was on his deathbed. I worked at the hospital where he was admitted and had to service the printers in his private ward... I rubbernecked and there he was and the daughter...she gave me and my coworker the evil eye... just a true story...

[TheRickles]

3. The film "Where's My Roy Cohn?" is ostensibly about Roy Cohn.

But the 5 minutes or so about his disciple Donald Trump show where and how Trump learned these Mafia-like techniques. Highly recommended.

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[sop]

4. Zelenskyy's expression during the meeting reminded me of Joe Pesci in 'Goodfellas,' the scene where Tommy

walks into the mob basement believing he would become a made man, but realizes at the last second he'd been set up and was going to be shot in the head.

[FalloutShelter]

5. You are not wrong.

What kills me is that so many people have known this for ten years and now act like they are having some sort of epiphany.

Journalists that I respect, like Bunch, are now acting like they are just waking up. This is either willful ignorance or a massive failure of imagination.

All of these columns read like missives from the No Shit Sherlock Desk.

[doc03]

6. The media keeps calling it the

Trump Zelenskyy shouting match. It was Trump and Vance doing the shouting.

[Hekate]

7. Exactly. It was an ambush and a beat-down